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How can i replace fastfood with healthy food?

Please someone explain me everything seems like fastfood to me i like them too much but in trying to avoid them so can anyone tell me how can i replace fastfood with healthy they dont seem do delicious as fast food for example make me a list:
Hamburger - (with what to replace)
......? Help

@wytchinghours:
This is true. Stop going to these places--- it isn't food! It is all processed chemicals and fat. You need to get yourself in the mindset that these places are not an option.

Also, whatever food you make at home is controlled and you can make it as healthy as you'd like. Just like getting yourself into the mindset that fast food is not food, the same applies when you go food shopping. If it isn't in your house to eat, you won't eat it. Get into eating good foods that are healthy for you and forget about cutting calories.

If understanding food in general is an issue, take wytchinghours' advice and make an appointment with a nutritionist.

I would start off with making your own salad. Don't laugh. A gourmet salad tastes awesome. You can even put cold cuts or eggs on it. Tomatoes, onions, olives, artichokes, cheese, mustard, peppers, olive oil and balsamic vinegar, etc. I've been told I make the best tomato salad too. Cut up tomatoes and onion, but in some olive oil, salt pepper, and whatever herbs you like. Put all of it into a bowl and stir it up. Let it sit a few minutes if you want to get the best flavor.

I haven't gone to fast food in about 10 years and haven't had any stomach problems since I did. As for a hamburger, I get one every month or two, and I love them. But I get one at a nice restaurant (so no sawdust in it.) with a salad on the side or make it myself. It's a treat that makes it taste that much better.

You will just about have to quit going around fast food places to get on a healthy diet.

You may have to go to Grocery Stores and purchase healthier food items there
and eat them. Not necessarily Deli foods.

You could visit a Library and find books on health and nutrition to begin to learn what to eat and what not to eat and how to select a healthy balanced diet for your daily consumption.

You may also want to read the Book, "Fast Food Nation" too. (there was a movie by that same title but it bears no similarity to the book) In it you will read about why restaurant food seems to be so good. (it's done with special food
flavorings, scents, and additives that you could call "food cosmetics") I once tried to give my dog some of the stuff I thought tasted so good and the dog just
backed up and looked at me. Dog wouldn't even eat it. Because it knew it wasn't real food and likely not healthy for it to eat.

Yet people went to that fast food place every day and ate it by the ton(s).

It's interesting to me when I'm around a fast food paces today that I rarely see dogs lurking around the dumpsters there. Even if the dumpsters are within enclosures and the smell of the discarded food could loft through the air where a dog could smell it and be attracted to it..
Strange that.

Healthy eating is difficult becasue corporate America has decided delicious, fast and cheap is the way to go over slower preparation, costlier ingredients and healthier...less salt, less sugar, less fats, less additives healthy foods.

But you're wrong about the taste..... once you begin steaming raw veggies, broiling chicken, eating salads.... they taste just as good.of not better.

I remember eating a hot dog a few years ago.... I swear after two bites I felt like I had a mouthful of grease.... I never finished that dog.

Healthy eating is work. You have to be ready to put in the time... to learn, to prepare, to make it happen. And corporate America is working just as hard to make sure you fail. . .

This will be hard to do because your palate is used to salty, high-fat food. You'll have to make a determined effort and you'll have to learn how to cook because virtually all restaurant food (not just fast food) is unhealthy for you. For example, eat only whole grains (almost impossible to find at a restaurant). Half your plate at any meal should consist of fruits or vegetables. You can buy frozen veggies and microwave them easily, but you'll have to cook to have tastier options. Replace some of your meat protein with nuts and legumes (beans and peas). Fruit is delicious raw. If you have a salad, do not douse it in dressing. Use it sparingly. It's actually good to taste the greens and veggies in the salad. Chicken and fish, cooked properly at home, are healthy. Try to do some research and work with foods that already taste good to you.